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Monday, April 04, 2011

Dwelling

1819 House with Green Roof

5x7

Another in my Dwelling series of daily collages, this one featuring a roof composed with a piece of green stenciled paper where I used a paper doily as the resist and sprayed with green paint. There are lots of painted papers combined to create this house with it's strange setting. These are such fun to do and go together very quickly, now that I have more ideas of how to assemble the papers.﻿

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Work doggedly, one thing after the other. Begin work early, finish many things each day.Work on what comes to hand, what demands attention. Have rough plans - work them daily.Rest from the work.(source unknown)

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“I want to reduce what I see to basic forms that still retain an unmistakable connection to my original subject.” Jim Morgan

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"Listen, it's really pretty simple. If there's a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn't exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn't have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that's it. That's all an artistdoes." Tom Robbins

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If you can't do a good painting do a big one.If you can't do a big one do lots of small ones.Just keep working.(Royal Nebeker)

Art Tip: brush cleaning

As I work with acrylic medium for glue or with acrylic paints I stand my brushes in a bucket of water on my work table and give them a soap and water cleanup every day or so. But eventually my brushes get gunky and sometimes I forget to clean them. That's when I clean them with Murphy's Oil Soap. I keep an inch of MOS mixed 1:1 with water in a tall plastic tub (Feta from Costco) and put caked brushes in that solution overnight. By the next day the soap has softened the brush and with a bit of elbow grease I can get the brushes back to useable. This also works for brushes used with oil paint. I gave up using oils but wanted to save those good brushes and Murphy's Oil Soap came to the rescue. Get it at the grocery store.